129 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

John C Hay, 1882. 4-storey Scottish 17th century style corner tenement with corner tower and shops at ground floor. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; string courses above 1st and 2nd floors; crowstepped gables; long and short work to window margins; chamfered reveals.

W (MARCHMONT ROAD) ELEVATION: 6-bay including corner tower bay. Painted masonry piers to shop fronts. Bipartite windows in corner bay above ground floor, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in corniced conical roof with fishscale slates and cast-iron weathervane finial. Single windows in remaining bays. Chamfered angle bay to outer left, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in pedimented and stone finialled dormerhead. Similar bay to inner left. 2 bays to inner right breaking eaves at 3rd floor in gablehead with square tablet inset. Remaining bay breaking eaves at 3rd floor in round-arched pedimented and finialled dormerhead.

S (BEAUFORD ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Painted masonry piers to shop fronts. Bipartite windows in central bay, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in pedimented and finialled dormerhead with roundel inset. Single windows in remaining bays. 2 bays to outer left and right corbelled and slightly advanced above 1st floor, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in gableheads with square tablets inset. square blank tablet with hoodmould above 1st floor of 2 bays to outer right.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; lead flashing; corniced mutual and gablehead stacks; coped and rendered mutual and wallhead stacks; moulded octagonal cans; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods.